Both a coworker and I noticed the same thing at the same time in two separate parts of the area (me Route 7, her the Beltway near DC).
-police pulling over large trucks (dumptrucks, gravel trucks, etc).
-there were signs up admonishing the trucks to pull over at a certain exit. When trucks ignored said signs, cops were waiting en masse and actively pulled them over.
-in my case, I saw a motorcycle cop leading a convoy of about 8 trucks stop traffic and direct them into a public park where there were many other trucks and police.
Not on the news here but I did see it happening. I’m going to lay low today. Suggest everybody in the DC area make sure you have at least half a tank of gas, food, water, and if possible, a weapon on you or in your vehicle.
Could it have been something regulatory for commercial vehicles?
Did the vehicles have something in common, such as some sort of discernible intra- or interstate commercial status? You note dump trucks and gravel trucks, were the vehicles picked of a type that is commonly overweight on roads? If a box truck, were they within a certain range of load capacity?
Also, my boss says she saw the signs on the Beltway and said signs stated “all trucks exit here.” She said cops were ready and waiting to pull over all trucks that did not obey.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the threat that the group tied to the ft. hood shooting issued urging wannabe American jihadists to massacre government workers in D.C.
With the little information provided here, I will take a stab at this. It sounds like a Commercial Vehicle Blitz/Inspection which they do frequently here in central Ky.
Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement along with KSP and local metro cops will set up on a popular freeway and pull anything and everything over with a DOT number on it. Sometimes they will have a focus on specific trucks such as dump trucks, cement trucks, flatbeds etc. They usually have a pre determined area that they tell the drivers to move to after the first contact stop to conduct certain levels of inspections.
I do know that federal grants given to jurisdictions mandate that certified commercial vehicle officers have to have so many inspections to keep their certification current without having to go back thru the difficult training. Just my thoughts…, I could be wrong.
They had 95 south bound tied up yesterday while they were trying to figure out where the shots came from, it appears to have been from the high ground on the west side of 95 across from the museum.
A properly placed, extremely potent VBIED placed inside a full dump/gravel truck may/will have an extended kill-radius way beyond that of a traditional VBIED.
